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Originally Posted by Ohio
I specifically remember WL speaking publically that, "you cannot say that you are one with my ministry, and not be one with my office."
None of us realized that this "office" had a name.
After hearing WL teach on so many subjects, pointing out the errors of everyone else besides himself, I can still remember how dumbfounded I was upon learning that his own son Phillip (choking out the word nepotism) was LSM's manager. a.k.a. "my office."
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And that is where the teaching becomes very ugly. You begin with verses in the NT about the oneness of the Body, and "one lord, one spirit, one God, etc." You then go to Phil where it talks about murmuring and complaining and how to restore saints to harmonious situation. All good and scriptural teachings.
From there we mention cases of those who labored with Paul and then draw the analogy that for us today that means laboring with WL. Still not a "bad" teaching, perhaps a little self serving, but OK.
From there we get RG going off the deep end with his "wink wink" teaching about who the minister of the age is. You get some seriously bad teachings about how "it doesn't matter if he is wrong, as long as you follow him it is right" type of garbage. As bad as all these are, at least they aren't codified, only rumored.
From there you get the teachings of WL being the "MOTA", perhaps the most serious error in all of the LSM publications.
And then you have the extortion that you must be "one with his office" (i.e. PL in order to claim to be "one with the ministry"). The implied threat being that to not be able to "claim" to be "one with the ministry" (I assume this is referring to the document RG and BP made all the elders sign) is to be ostracized from the club. There you have it, the LSM sect full of extortion.